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Show Ilia Donation Wa Largest , f ..,: . V V ' . - . a-' . ' ' :' FINALLY HIT ON NORTHWESTERN FOB DONATION Walter P. Murphy. , .Industrialist and philanthropist i Northwestern U Wins Gift Of $6,732,000 Endowment , EVANSTON.'lll., March 23 (INS) A ( Ift of $,733,0oO has been made to Northwestern university in Evanston by tha Walter P. Murphy foundation, It was announced today by University Presi- dent Dr. Walter Dill Scott The money wilt be used to build the nation's largest Institute of technology for the study ef engineering. engi-neering. Dr. Scott said. Th Institute In-stitute will be erected ea the Evans-ton Evans-ton campus. Walter P. Murphy, Chicago Industrialist In-dustrialist who created tne foundation founda-tion for charitable purposes, 1 a native ef Pittsburgh, Pa. He new is in California. He ie chairman of the board of the Standard Railway Equipment eempany. Dr. Scott who revealed North-weetern North-weetern previously had been given 111.000 by the Murphy foundation, aid th present gift was th largest ever mad by a Irving person to his school He was Informed, h (aid, that Northwestern was selected for th large gift after months of study by the foundation, which had considered consid-ered leading institutions ea both east and west eoaste before deciding decid-ing upon the Evanstoa sohooL Th techno logy building, ea which construction will start at once, will cost 14. SOO, 000 without equipment. Dr. Scott said. It will be erected on the shore ef Lake Michigan, te which the campus extends, will be four stories high, will cover sn area ef 000 feet by 230 feet and will be ef white none in modern gothle architecture. Eight hundred hun-dred students will be accommodated. Work en the structure should be completed by th fall of 140, Dr. Ssott said. . |